Steve Russell appears remotely from the Computer History Museum, beside the last working PDP-1.
Computers were not popular in 1961. The state-of-the-art at the time was the PDP-1, a $120,000 dollar cabinet that was twice the size of a refrigerator and sounded like a blender every time you turned it on. The community was mostly found at universities, where fledgling computer scientists were faced with a problem: how could they get people to use the damn thing? They wanted repeat users, developing and employing skills — and simple spirograph tools weren't going to get them there. What they needed was a game.
The result was Spacewar!, one of 21 games currently on display at The Museum of the Moving Image in New York. This weekend, two...
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